گل رنگیں

یہ تلاش متصل شمع جہاں افروز ہےتوسن ادراک انساں کو خرام آموز ہے

English translation

This constant search is a world-illuminating candle and teaches to the steed of human intellect its gait.
(This last stanza expresses Allamah Iqbal's strong hope that his present condition may be the means of attaining his objective which is described in the stanza.)

Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil

Word meanings

ادراک: عقل۔توسن: گھوڑا۔

About this couplet

This is couplet 12 of 12 in “⁨گل رنگیں⁩” (The Colorful Rose) in the section Part 1 -- Before 1905, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (⁨بانگِ درا⁩), published in 1924.

Read it in the poem

۱۲ / ۱۲